Socialist parties -- United States

Papers of the major American socialist figure of the late 19th and early 20th Century

Includes materials pertaining to the following broad subjects: socialist unity, growth and conflict, 1900- 1913; the war years, 1914-1919; Bolshevism and red-baiting, 1918-1921; fusion politics, 1922-1924; reconstruction and decline of the Socialist Party, 1925-1933; and trade unionism, 1909-1933. This is a microfilm edition of the Morris Hillquit papers, the originals are at the Wisconsin State Historical Society.

Consist of the official records of the Socialist Labor Party from its organization in 1877 until 1907. Despite the fragmentation or paucity of some types of records, the collection as a whole documents many facets of the Party's development, organization, thought, and tactics, as well as its contribution to the labor and socialist movements in a turbulent era of industrial change and of social and economic stress in the United States.